“ everything is dear if you don't want it. ”
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922). copy citation
Author | James Joyce |
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Source | Ulysses |
Topic | value price want |
Date | 1922 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm |
Context
“In Lionel Marks's antique saleshop window haughty Henry Lionel Leopold dear Henry Flower earnestly Mr Leopold Bloom envisaged battered candlesticks melodeon oozing maggoty blowbags. Bargain: six bob. Might learn to play. Cheap. Let her pass. Course everything is dear if you don't want it. That's what good salesman is. Make you buy what he wants to sell. Chap sold me the Swedish razor he shaved me with. Wanted to charge me for the edge he gave it. She's passing now. Six bob.
Must be the cider or perhaps the burgund.” source
Must be the cider or perhaps the burgund.” source